Chinese supercomputers help crack the mystery of Yellowstone’s volcanic plumbing: paper

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Yellowstone is the world’s largest active volcanic systems – whose eruption is hundreds of times more powerful than Vesuvius’ blast and ash could blanket half the US – and yet scientists could not agree on what drives its underground magma system. But a new finding detailed by Chinese researchers could settle the dispute. They declared that Yellowstone’s magma channels were not blasted open by magma forcing its way u...